Conversely, any country which hasn't yet got to deliver a high proportion of booster shots for the more vulnerable cohorts is likely to be in big trouble. The Netherlands, for example, is miles … (View Post)

I'm unsure quite what they mean when they say Omicron is 29% less severe than Delta. They might mean you get 29% fewer hospitalisations amongst the unjabbed. We need to get a better understandin… (View Post)

Key finding from that SA study: 1. 2 doses of Pfizer’s jab makes vaccinated people 70% less likely to get hospitalised vs. unvaccinated people 2. This is lower than 93% protection the jab gave in SA’… (View Post)

Moderately good news for the UK at least, I think. The two-dose protection against severe illness is still fairly good (although falling off for older cohorts), and we know that a third dose will boo… (View Post)

Blimey, you've turned into some kind of Leave EU nutter. It's 'unthinking Francophilia' to point to one international comparison when making a point about the current UK rate of b… (View Post)